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4 total messages Started by aa... Packman Aaron I. Fri, 22 May 1992 13:20
Wolf 3D--What's required to run?
#1063
Author: aa... Packman Aaron I.
Date: Fri, 22 May 1992 13:20
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Help, please.
I've got Wolf 3d but can't get it to run.  If I run it in DOS it can't
execute, and if I run it in Windows (3.0) it tells me it can't get enough
memory to run.  I have a 386 with 2 Mb RAM and an Oak VGA/SVGA card.
Any ideas are appreciated.

Aaron Packman
aa...@catlech.edu 
Re: Wolf 3D--What's required to run?
#1064
Author: col... Robert Colello
Date: Fri, 22 May 1992 19:04
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In article <22MAY199...@juliet.caltech.edu> aa...@juliet.caltech.edu (Packman, Aaron I.) writes:
>Help, please.
>I've got Wolf 3d but can't get it to run.  If I run it in DOS it can't
>execute, and if I run it in Windows (3.0) it tells me it can't get enough
>memory to run.  I have a 386 with 2 Mb RAM and an Oak VGA/SVGA card.
>Any ideas are appreciated.
>
>Aaron Packman
>aa...@catlech.edu 


Remove most or all of your TSR's and try again.  Keep your mouse driver though.
That should do for a while, then add TSR gradually back in till you find out
which one goes over the memory threshold.

Bob Colello
Col...@cheshire.oxy.edu
Re: Wolf 3D--What's required to run?
#1065
Author: be... Dave Beals
Date: Fri, 22 May 1992 23:08
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In <1992May22....@cheshire.oxy.edu> col...@cheshire.oxy.edu (Robert Colello) writes:

>In article <22MAY199...@juliet.caltech.edu> aa...@juliet.caltech.edu (Packman, Aaron I.) writes:
>>Help, please.
>>I've got Wolf 3d but can't get it to run.  If I run it in DOS it can't
>>execute, and if I run it in Windows (3.0) it tells me it can't get enough
>>memory to run.  I have a 386 with 2 Mb RAM and an Oak VGA/SVGA card.
>>Any ideas are appreciated.
>>
>>Aaron Packman
>>aa...@catlech.edu 


>Remove most or all of your TSR's and try again.  Keep your mouse driver though.
>That should do for a while, then add TSR gradually back in till you find out
>which one goes over the memory threshold.

I found an easier solution. I have a 486sx-20, w/ 4 MB's of memory, and I use 
Windows 3.1 as my primary shell. When I first got Wolf 3d, I couldn't even
run it when I exited Windows due to memory complaints from Wolfenstein. So,
I used the PIF editor, put together a PIF for Wolfenstein that allocated it
224 KB of main RAM, and 300 KB of EMS. After that, I could run Wolfenstein
from Windows with no problems. I even made an icon for it. :-)

Making a PIF for Wolfenstein is a lot easier than stripping your autoexec.bat
file. I think 2 MB should be just enough to do it if you run Windows in
Standard Mode.

-- 
______    David "Bealzebub" Beals
\::::/    e-mail: be...@MDPHYA.UMASSD.EDU   Phone # 508-636-9025
 \::/     Compuserve: 76256,3417                    518-459-8905
  \/                       * Gay and proud of it! *
Re: Wolf 3D--What's required to run?
#1066
Author: col... Robert Colello
Date: Sat, 23 May 1992 06:30
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In article <1992May22....@cis.umassd.edu> be...@cis.umassd.edu (Dave Beals) writes:
>In <1992May22....@cheshire.oxy.edu> col...@cheshire.oxy.edu (Robert Colello) writes:
>
>>In article <22MAY199...@juliet.caltech.edu> aa...@juliet.caltech.edu (Packman, Aaron I.) writes:
>>>Help, please.
>>>I've got Wolf 3d but can't get it to run.  If I run it in DOS it can't
>>>execute, and if I run it in Windows (3.0) it tells me it can't get enough
>>>memory to run.  I have a 386 with 2 Mb RAM and an Oak VGA/SVGA card.
>>>Any ideas are appreciated.
>>>
>>>Aaron Packman
>>>aa...@catlech.edu 
>
>
>>Remove most or all of your TSR's and try again.  Keep your mouse driver though.
>>That should do for a while, then add TSR gradually back in till you find out
>>which one goes over the memory threshold.
>
>I found an easier solution. I have a 486sx-20, w/ 4 MB's of memory, and I use 
>Windows 3.1 as my primary shell. When I first got Wolf 3d, I couldn't even
>run it when I exited Windows due to memory complaints from Wolfenstein. So,
>I used the PIF editor, put together a PIF for Wolfenstein that allocated it
>224 KB of main RAM, and 300 KB of EMS. After that, I could run Wolfenstein
>from Windows with no problems. I even made an icon for it. :-)
>
>Making a PIF for Wolfenstein is a lot easier than stripping your autoexec.bat
>file. I think 2 MB should be just enough to do it if you run Windows in
>Standard Mode.
>
>-- 
>______    David "Bealzebub" Beals
>\::::/    e-mail: be...@MDPHYA.UMASSD.EDU   Phone # 508-636-9025
> \::/     Compuserve: 76256,3417                    518-459-8905
>  \/                       * Gay and proud of it! *

Quite true if you have Windows.  I have a little pet peave about people who
run way too many TSR's.  I have a friend with a 1 meg machine who runs
over 150K in TSR's thus leaving only about 480K free.  Then he wonders why
things don't run.  Also, I noticed that Wolf is a bit slower in Windows 3.1
than DOS when running on my 386/33 with 4 megs.
 
Also, It doesn't multitask well when switching between apps. 

Just my $.02.

Bob
Col...@cheshire.oxy.edu
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